bigil

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Etymology

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Noun

bigil

  1. skin
  2. bark (of a tree)

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English vigil, from Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of feighil.

Pronunciation

Noun

bigil f (genitive singular bigile, nominative plural bigilí)

  1. (religion) vigil (eve of a religious festival)
  2. (Roman Catholicism) abstinence (from certain foods on days of penitential observance)

Declension

Declension of bigil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bigil bigilí
vocative a bhigil a bhigilí
genitive bigile bigilí
dative bigil bigilí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhigil na bigilí
genitive na bigile na mbigilí
dative leis an mbigil
don bhigil 		leis na bigilí

Mutation

Mutated forms of bigil
radical lenition eclipsis
bigil bhigil mbigil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ḃigil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 66
  2. ^ “bigil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uigil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 376, page 127

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